Languages that surrounds us 📖👄👂✌️

Let me introduce you to my native language.
Latvia - country that i call homeland or as in Latvian "dzimtene"

It is a small but recognizable country in Baltics states, Eastern-Europe. Between Lithuania and Estonia, next to Baltic sea and notorious big bear.

This image where depicted "Tree of languages", seemed to me fascinating. It reminded me of my project I did in childhood.
While ago when I were in high school - we were asked to create a personal family tree.
That was a fun but challenging task to gather such information. Of course, first people to which I turned was my parents and then grandparents. They could tell me just about nearest relatives - as far as grand-grand-grand - parents. The stories about all of the relatives to me were so interesting so I wanted to know more about my roots.
Sadly it was not possible because the only place where to find such information about ancestors would be church`s old archives. Old church in the parish was long gone with all valuable archives. Thanks a lot, WW2 - another chapter in lost history.

What`s happened, happened. Let us get back to languages now.

After my recollection of childhood, I look deeper in this topic about languages.

And I come across some interesting facts about languages of earthlings.
There will be some of them:

📘In the whole world, there are 7,099 languages that are spoken today.

📘Roughly a third of languages are now endangered, often with less than 1,000 speakers remaining.

📘Meanwhile, just 23 languages account for more than half the world’s population.

📘Nearly 2/3 of languages are from Africa and Asia.

📘86% of people use Asian or European languages

~facts source~